Amelia's notebooks

The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.

Ten-year-old Amelia exchanges letters and postcards with her long-distance friend Nadia. Includes actual letters folded and inserted into envelopes.

Amelia finally gets a chance to meet her father - well, she's seen him before, but not since she was a baby, and she can't remember anything about him. Now she's going to see him again for a visit she'll never forget!

Problems arise for Amelia when she starts sixth grade at the same middle school where her older sister Cleo is an eighth-grader, and she gets the school's meanest teacher for three of her classes.

Amelia uses her diary to record the great events in her life during the year which she spent in the fifth grade.

Amelia creates a handwritten book about palm reading, fortune telling, handwriting analysis, with games and quizes included.

Despite the discomforts of biting bugs, hard mattresses, and exhausting hikes, Amelia enjoys sleepaway camp with her best friend Carly until they both develop crushes on the same boy.

Amelia records in her diary a nightmare come true when her embarrassing older sister tags along on a sixth-grade class trip, and then she learns about the nasty side of gossip when rumors start about her at her new school

Amerlia thought that the only thing better than a best friend was two best friends. But then they come together and she's not sure if any of them are friends. Will Amelia be able to have more than one best friend?